Nothing is visible at ground level on the west-facing pasture slope where it once stood; the earthworks were levelled around 1963, leaving a field that looks, to any passing eye, entirely ordinary. What betrays the site is a crop-mark, the kind of faint discolouration that appears in aerial photographs when buried features affect how grass or grain grows above them. Captured in aerial survey imagery, the mark outlines a rectangular enclosure measuring approximately 40 metres north to south and 30 metres east to west, precise enough to suggest a substantial and deliberately constructed boundary, even if whatever it once enclosed is now gone.

Enclosures of this kind are among the most common, and most varied, categories of monument in the Irish landscape. They range from ringforts and cashels associated with early medieval settlement to enclosures of prehistoric or later ecclesiastical origin, and without excavation it is rarely possible to say with certainty which tradition a given example belongs to. What can be said of Kilcraheen is that the enclosure was rectangular rather than circular, which itself narrows the possibilities somewhat, since ringforts are almost always round. The approximate date of its destruction is known from local memory rather than any documented account, placing its loss within living memory at the time the site was first formally recorded. It was levelled for agricultural reasons, as happened to countless earthworks across Ireland during the mid-twentieth century, when land improvement schemes and mechanised farming removed features that had endured for perhaps a thousand years or more.